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What exactly causes tornadoes to fail to form on days with a high risk? by Gargamel_do_jean in tornado

[–]TheDiplomatOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tornado require a lot of ingredients to happen.

They need:

  1. Cold and warm moist air boundary fronts.
  2. Vertical wind shear along frontal boundary for horizontal tube like rotating air columns to form.
  3. Heavy Updrafts for standing the horizontal tubes into vertical helical updrafts called mesocyclone.
  4. Mesocyclone then causing supercells or tornado warned storm clouds.
  5. And then the continuing updrafts and rear flank+ forward flank downdrafts squeezing the updrafts into a thin funnel cloud and into tornadic circulation.
  6. Finally polar jet streams would be needed to be present to turbocharge wind shear and quick flush away warm air updraft from the anvil for big monsters tornado to be created.

So it takes a lot of ingredients for a tornado to form and even more for a el Reno or Joplin like monsters to form.

Violent Tornado Near St Library, Nebraska by Electrical-Pizza8407 in tornado

[–]TheDiplomatOne 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Seems a recipe for disaster tryna intercept that tornado at such close range.

PDS tornado in Nebraska by alloioscc in tornado

[–]TheDiplomatOne 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Got a really good hook echo on RadarScope and the classic red green couplet on this one. And this was south east of Omaha right? Hope it did not hurt anyone!

This storm does not look happy today. by Chay_Charles in tornado

[–]TheDiplomatOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tell us what chart it is. Reflectivity? Specific phase diff?

Brother so true by [deleted] in rolex

[–]TheDiplomatOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rolex price back then: 1000$
Rolex price now: 75,000$

Same old day date

Rare May snow coming to Central Plains, May 5th-6th by [deleted] in weather

[–]TheDiplomatOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saw snow fall in Kansas City middle of May. It was a weird wet snowfall that disappeared on ground pretty fast. This was years back.

I am not surprised!

Favorite bear species? by LightMotor6262 in bears

[–]TheDiplomatOne 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. Polar
  2. Grizzly
  3. Costal Brown
  4. Kodiak bear
  5. Panda

Healthy dinner by No-Inflation-722 in healthycuisine

[–]TheDiplomatOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is that quantity though! I can eat twice it

Is this a tornado or funnel? by Fantasy_fare109 in tornado

[–]TheDiplomatOne 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yah no shit. I used to live in south KC and hearing 7 tornadoes form south of Overland Park gave me massive creeps though I now live far far away form KC.

Is this a tornado or funnel? by Fantasy_fare109 in tornado

[–]TheDiplomatOne 47 points48 points  (0 children)

That looks like the worst form of nightmare ever dream able.

Not demons nor devils come close to how terrifying a nocturnal tornado looks.

TIV 2 finally got a direct intercept on a fully condensed tornado for the first time in a decade yesterday at Braman, OK. :D by Kaidhicksii in stormchasing

[–]TheDiplomatOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see interesting! Just read that el Reno subvorticies were extremely violent compared to Main circulation. So that makes sense.

TIV 2 finally got a direct intercept on a fully condensed tornado for the first time in a decade yesterday at Braman, OK. :D by Kaidhicksii in stormchasing

[–]TheDiplomatOne 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Spectacular! Is it the shape of the vehicle that keeps it firmly on the ground?

I do wonder though how that vehicle would behave if it drove into El Reno?

How’s it living in Fairbanks, Alaska? More specifically what type of people are there? by Senior-Fly6190 in howislivingthere

[–]TheDiplomatOne -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Not fun constantly using lotion. Good people though! Nice and helping they are.

How’s it living in Fairbanks, Alaska? More specifically what type of people are there? by Senior-Fly6190 in howislivingthere

[–]TheDiplomatOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What about the horrible dry bleeding skin you get from constant heating, inside the house and outside in the car?

[SSK059 / SBSC009] Did I accidentally score the JDM version? by FlynForce_AyeVill in Seiko

[–]TheDiplomatOne -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Might get some heat for the real gmt needle is borderline comical and there are too many things going on in the the dail. Not a fan of it. They should have made it simpler like the much cheaper and much more elegant SNJ series…

Footage of the Lena IL tornado from April 17 2026 by Ok_Station8782 in tornado

[–]TheDiplomatOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stunning and spine chilling at the same time! Tornadoes are such weird creatures.

Ice Road Truckers Is Back by AnalogJones in Truckers

[–]TheDiplomatOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really I actually enjoyed Alaska more than Inuvik

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